An AI interviewer that probes candidates (and costs $0.99/interview)

Name: An AI interviewer that probes candidates (and costs $0.99/interview)
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Author: mukulmunjal

by mukulmunjal·Feb 18, 2026·2 points·2 comments

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AI Analysis

●MidShip It

$0.99per interview undercuts enterprise tools, but LLM-as-interviewer is a crowded category.

Strengths

•Pricing ($0.99) is genuinely aggressive vs Pymetrics/HireEQ enterprise contracts; removes friction to trial.
•Dynamic probing for depth (follow-up when candidate vague) shows real prompt engineering beyond basic Q&A.
•Instant ranking + transcripts + portfolio scanning bundles features well for the price point.

Weaknesses

•'AI conducts interviews' is well-trodden (Pymetrics, HireEQ, Paradox, others); no claim of better signal or accuracy.
•100 users is early-stage; no published data on hire quality or false positive/negative rates to validate the core claim.

Post Description

Hey HN,

I am Mukul, and my co-founder Tushar and I built InterviewFlowAI (https://interviewflowai.com) to conduct conversational first-round screening interviews over phone or video.

We built this because manual phone screening is broken, especially with the current flood of AI generated resumes. Existing tools require massive enterprise contracts, so we made ours strictly $0.99 per interview.

The hardest engineering challenge was not hooking up text-to-speech. It was optimizing our system prompts so the LLM actually probes for depth. If a candidate gives a vague answer, the AI dynamically asks for specifics before generating a structured scorecard.

Our stack is React JS, Supabase, and AWS. We just crossed our first 100 users and are working hard to keep voice latency low while running these complex background evaluations.

We would love for you to tear it apart. Any feedback on the dashboard UX or how natural the interview flow feels would be amazing.